Contents
Boil lobio for 1 hour.
How to cook lobio
Products
Red beans – 1 cup
Onions – 1 thing
Tomatoes – 4 pieces
Garlic – 2 prongs
Red hot pepper – 1 piece
Walnuts (kernels) – half a glass
Salt – 1 teaspoon
Hops-suneli – 1 teaspoon
Greens (dill, cilantro, parsley, basil) – 5 sprigs each
Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons
Water – 5 glasses
How to cook lobio
1. Pour 1 cup of dry beans into a colander and rinse under running water.
2. Transfer the beans to a deep bowl, add 2 glasses of cold water, and leave for 8 hours.
3. Cut 1 peeled onion into half rings.
4. Finely chop the garlic.
5. Cut 4 tomatoes into small wedges.
6. Cut into 5 sprigs of cilantro, dill, parsley, basil.
7. Cut 1 hot red pepper pod in half, remove the seeds and chop finely.
8. Chop with a knife (not very finely) half a glass of walnuts.
9. Drain the unabsorbed liquid from the soaked beans, rinse the beans.
10. Put the beans in a saucepan, pour 3 glasses of water and put on medium heat.
11. When the contents of the saucepan boil, reduce heat to low, remove foam and cook for about 1 hour. The beans should be soft, but keep their shape.
12. Drain the water from the finished beans into a separate bowl.
13. Pour 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan and put on medium heat.
14. Add the onion to the pan and fry for 3 minutes.
15. Add tomatoes and red hot peppers, fry for 3 minutes.
16. Add walnuts, half chopped greens, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of suneli hops.
17. Put the contents of the frying pan into a saucepan with beans, mix everything and add a little water, in which the beans were cooked. The consistency of lobio can be compared to thick sour cream.
18. Place a saucepan over medium heat and cook for 7 minutes. Add garlic to a saucepan 1 minute until tender.
Serve the lobio, sprinkle with the remaining herbs. On the second day, this dish becomes even tastier.
Delicious facts
Lobio is a dish of Georgian cuisine. An accelerated version of the dish is prepared from canned beans; 2 cans are required.
The characteristic taste of lobio is given by cilantro, its quantity can be doubled. The more herbs, the tastier the dish.
Walnut kernels can be pre-dried – this will give the lobio a more delicate, refined taste.
Tomatoes can be substituted for tomato paste.
The calorie content of lobio is about 280 kcal / 100 grams.
The average cost of products for lobio (as of June 2020 in Moscow) is 270 rubles.
Store lobio for 72 hours in the refrigerator.